groucho marx was better at telling jokes, i'm a scientist. i love that. it takes us some place we are not comfortable going. >> as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine, you found it's true. >> absolutely. it's good cardo vascular exercise and has psychological benefits like improving the immune response. and strange things. it's been shown to help combat determine atightize. it -- determina tightize. it comes down to the fact that stress is bat. mirth and humour is good for us. that is why humor, as long as it's point of view is helpful for us. >> the new book is ha. the science of when we laugh and why. good of you to join us. >> thank you for thissing me. >> the show may be over, but the conversation continues on the website aljazeera.com. or facebook or google+. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we're following for you. >> it's probably the best information that we've had. >> investigators now saying new signals are detected possibly from those black boxes of a missing plane. >>> 100 days behind bars. eg

groucho marx was better at telling jokes, i'm a scientist. i love that. it takes us some place we are not comfortable going. >> as the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine, you found it's true. >> absolutely. it's good cardo vascular exercise and has psychological benefits like improving the immune response. and strange things. it's been shown to help combat determine atightize. it -- determina tightize. it comes down to the fact that stress is bat. mirth and humour is good for us. that is why humor, as long as it's point of view is helpful for us. >> the new book is ha. the science of when we laugh and why. good of you to join us. >> thank you for thissing me. >> the show may be over, but the conversation continues on the website aljazeera.com. or facebook or google+. >> on al jazeera america when science intersects with hope. >> i'm hoping to give someone a prosthetic arm for under $1000 >> inovation finds oppurtunity >> a large earthquake would be an inconvenience rather than a disaster... >> and hardware meets humanity >> this is some of the bes

dignity is as lacking here as in a groucho marx movie or a punch and judy show. where shakespeare's characters speak in blank verse, exploring the whole range of human emotion, jarry's shout out crude threats and insults. and my god, madam, you really have come too far. it is clear that ubu roi burlesques shakespeare, but it is unlike the drama of its own time too. during an age when ibsen and chekhov were commenting in their own daring ways on the beliefs of their society, no one was quite like jarry. other playwrights put daring words into the speeches of their characters. jarry provided characters who are distortions of people, anatomic miracles and sartorial disasters. ibsen, with his well-made play, suggests that once social laws and attitudes are changed, the world may be an orderly place for reasonable people to live. other playwrights examine the inner lives of characters or puzzled over a philosophy worth believing in. only jarry, by emphasizing the base, brute-like passions of cartoon characters in a chaotic play punctuated by rude music, suggests that

i am thinking about the old groucho marx. yesterday, i saw an elephant in my panel a.m. as. got in my pajamas, i have no idea. grou groucho was great. an elephant wearing pajamas. it takes us someplace we are not comfortable growing. medicine. you found that is true? >> it has more psychological benefits like improving our immune system response. even some very strange things like it's been shown to help combat determinetitis and insulin rebound for diabetics. it comes down to stress is bad for us. the feelings of mirth and joy is good for us. we need that. humor, as long as it's kept positive, is really helpful for benefits. >> the book has some incredible examples of how that works. the new book is "ha!" the science of when we laugh and why. scott williams, thank you for joining us. >> the show may be over. the conversation continues on our website aljazeera.com/considerthis or on our facebook or google+ pages or iqe >> a powerful earthquake rocks chile causing death and destruction. >> a birds eye view of catastrophic mudslide in washington. >> our daughters, son, mothers